By Ron Nurwisah, Boy Reporter

Thankfully, yesterday’s TTC strike fizzled out and the city’s buses, subways and streetcars are now running again. Kevin McGran at the Star dissects yesterday’s events and points to an automated phone message from union head Bob Kinnear as the spark that caused TTC employees to walk out.
Also in the Star, drivers are facing the heat from pissed off passengers.
Scarborough Hospital is being sued by a patient over dialysis machines that were contaminated with hepatitis. Sadly the plaintiff died of a heart attack days after he filed the case, his lawyers are proceeding with the case. There’s speculation that hepatitis played a factor in his death.
The opposition at Queen’s Park is criticizing the Liberals over their failure to close the province’s coal plants. Initially, the government wanted to close coal plants by 2007 but sadly alternatives could not be brought online fast enough and the plants won’t be closed until 2009.
B’Nai Brith and the Simon Wiesenthal Centre are blasting CUPE over their boycott of Israel “until that state recognizes the Palestinian right to self-determination.” B’Nai Brith even contends that the vote, which was held on a Saturday, was unfair to CUPE’s Jewish members that were observing the Sabbath.
A painting by Group of Seven member, Lawren Harris, sold for $1.1 million. That’s nearly 10-times the estimated cost. The painting was thought destroyed but recently rediscovered in a collector’s home.